SAN FRANCISCO — Jonah Heim’s RBI single tied the game, Lawrence Butler followed with a go-ahead RBI hit and the Athletics scored four times with two out in the ninth inning Thursday, rallying for a 9-6 win over the San Francisco Giants.
Henry Bolte opened the ninth with an infield single off Caleb Kilian (2-4). After Bolte advanced to second on a wild pitch, Kilian got two outs before walking Tyler Soderstrom. Heim then singled down the left-field line to score Bolte and tie the game at 6.
Butler put the Athletics ahead with a single to right that scored Soderstrom. After Butler stole second, Max Muncy’s bloop single to left scored two more runs and gave the Athletics a three-run lead.
The A’s had led 2-1 in the sixth before Jung Hoo Lee hit a go-ahead, three-run triple with two outs and Victor Bericoto followed with a two-run homer, his third, to put San Francisco ahead 6-2.
Bericoto had hit a game-ending solo homer in the Giants’ 2-1 win Wednesday night.
In Thursday’s series finale, the Athletics got a two-run single from Shea Langeliers in the seventh and an RBI single from Jeff McNeil in the eighth to set up their comeback in the ninth. McNeil had three of the Athletics’ 15 hits.
Geoff Hartlieb (1-0) threw two scoreless innings for his second career victory. Mason Barnett worked a perfect ninth and picked up his second save.
San Francisco starter Landen Roupp held the Athletics to two runs on six hits in six innings. He struck out six and walked one. The Giants have lost each of Roupp’s past 10 starts.
Up next
Athletics RHP J.T. Ginn (5-4, 3.16 ERA) faces the Angels and RHP Walbert Ureña (5-5, 2.41) in Anaheim on Friday night.
Gelof on DL
The Athletics placed infielder Zack Gelof on the 10-day injured list because of a contusion on his right hand.
The team announced the placement was retroactive to Wednesday and Alika Williams was recalled from the Triple-A Aviators to take his spot.
Gelof, whose lengthy hitting, on-base and runs-scored streaks ended after he suffered the injury, was inadvertently spiked by San Francisco’s Matt Chapman in the second inning Tuesday night as Gelof attempted to tag him out.
Gelof quickly left the field in obvious pain. He flied to right as the game’s leadoff hitter in his only at-bat of the 3-1 loss to the Giants.
Gelof had a hitting streak of 24 games (tied for seventh longest in franchise history), an on-base streak of 27 games and a runs-scored streak of 13 games (the fourth longest in franchise history and longest in 93 years). Gelof is batting .282 with 11 home runs this season.
